"Hoof"

On "Hoof", from their debut EP Fleetwood Max, Icelandic punks Tófa hoist the lie of female empowerment piñata-height and have at it. "Wet and undressed/ Sprinkled with the best/ So we believe that/ We are masterpieces," sings Colorado-born singer Allie Doersch, her voice blaring and flinty. Featuring members of cultish post-rockers For a Minor Reflection, the band hints at the internal chaos wrought by being conned into making appearance alone your mealticket to acceptance. They seem to have oozed from the same dank, festering space as Dilly Dally (they were actually inspired to form by Perfect Pussy), and weave in the odd deranged Cramps-style vamp to push the song through its suite-like state: destruction into confusion into despair. "Speaking in false tongues," Doersch muses, and then screams: "Before too long it will/ Snare us in our traps!"